Nuclear power is the fastest way to slash greenhouse gas emissions, decarbonize

Re:Nuclear power is the fastest way to slash greenhouse gas ... by aryehof on Sunday April 07, 2019 @01:07AM (#19594944)

A colonialist perspective, would see it as "unusable desert" ready for nuclear waste. The original owners, Australian Aborigines, would certainly not.

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Re:Nuclear power is the fastest way to slash greenhouse gas ... by elgenie on Sunday April 07, 2019 @01:35AM (#19595008)

Population density argues otherwise [0]. The aboriginal population of Australia pre-colonization is estimated to be around 750K spread out over nearly 3 million square miles.

There may be differing perspectives about how much of it is unusable, but the debate is between "most of the continent" and "even more than that". A nuclear waste storage facility in an unvisited portion of the outback would rank rather low on the list of bad things happening to the indigenous people of Australia, wouldn't you say?

[0] https://www.mapsofworld.com/australia/population.html

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